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From: zlsiial@mcc.ac.uk (A.V. Le Blanc)
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Subject: Re: Proposed Enhancement to select/case (yes, I know...)
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Date: 7 Sep 90 09:44:45 GMT
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The range notation in case statements was allowed in the later
versions of the ETH Pascal 6000 compiler.  Since this compiler
was very influential in the development of other implementations,
there were probably several which followed it in offering this
(non-standard) extension.